Home made ice cream in Talkeetna. Churned with this old John Deere engine.

The Wildflower Cafe, Talkeetna, Alaska

Plenty of daylight hours keep the wild flowers in bloom.

Green shuttle bus on the way to the Eielson Visitor Center, Denali National Park

The range of the Denali Caribou Herd is almost exclusively within the boundaries of Denali National Park and Preserve.

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A golden eagle soars over Denali National Park

Bull moose in Denali National Park.

Nenana, Alaska is 65 miles southwest of Fairbanks on the George Parks Highway. Nenana is at mile 412 of the Alaska Railroad, on the south bank of the Tanana River (just east of the mouth of the Nenana River), and at mile 305 of the Parks Highway. It is an historic community - an Athabascan Native Village 56 miles (as the raven flies) from Fairbanks and 75 miles north of Denali National Park. Nenana has air access, with a 5,000 ft. paved runway for float and ski planes.

Yup. Nenana, AK.

Nenana, Alaska

Healy, Alaska is located on the Parks Highway 11 miles north of the Denali National Park Visitors Center.

The van used in the making of "Into the Wild" directed by Sean Penn, about Emory University, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless who abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000 savings account to charity and hitchhikes to Alaska to live in the wilderness.

Outside of Fairbanks. One of the most difficult and remarkable engineering feats of modern time: the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. This is one of the largest pipeline systems in the world and the only way to get crude oil from Alaska's North Slope fields to tankers waiting in Valdez.